Drivers seat position

Bumping this again.
Anyone making these?
I would buy them quick like.

Hello from me as well. As of a few days ago, I am the proud owner of a Jimny 2006 and I am also having a bit a problem with the driver's seat position. I am 1.83 (6ft) and it's a bit tight for me as well. Moving the seat rails slightly should make everything perfect. Does anyone know whether I can buy this kit from somewhere or maybe share the dimensions so i can find someone to make it for me ? Thank you!

[strike]I'll see what I can do... there's a demand and no-one producing them at the moment...[/strike]

Sorry, thought about these this evening in the shop, there's not enough market for them or margin in them... I sold a few batches but they were too laborious to make... it really needs one of the bigger suppliers with a profile cutter to make some...

But if it helps anyone, this is what I did...



Take a seat out so that you can see the mounts on the floorpan... I don't know why on this occasion I used wood to make the templates, as I normally prototype in cardboard being a shopkeeper with unlimited supply of grocery boxes :laugh: You can see where I've drilled through the wood to match up with the original mounting holes in the floor and then worked back with parallel lines to a position ~2" back. Also note the cutout to get around the wiring loom that sits on the transmission tunnel.



When I was happy with the templates the measurements / holes were transferred to steel plate bar, these were 70mm wide and 5mm thick from memory...



So the rear mounts of the seats are positioned ~2" back over the original mounts... if you read back through this thread someone was making spaces that just "hung in mid-air", I didn't think this was suitable for resale as a product, so I made them full length bar...



At the front you can clearly see the spacing backwards..



These were then rounded off and tidied up to make them safe to sell on...



And finally the original two bars were used as templates to make small batch runs, drilling through the templates to get the holes in the right places, and cutting and shaping the bars with an angle grinder...

So hopefully you can see... for the ~£40 I was asking for a pair there's a lot of labour drilling, cutting, shaping, finishing and then the added cost of getting them powdercoated, there's very little profit in them, and I don't think you could charge much more for them and the market stand the retail price of them...

SO, it really needs one of the big players with there own profile cutter to knock a reasonably sized batch out to cover their costs...

The same pair of spacers work on both sides of the vehicle, i.e. for the left-hand drive market, or as a passenger seat spacer in addition to the driver's seat...

Hope that helps, either to make your own, or for someone to make similar items to sell on...?

Dave

Thanks Dave really appreciate it.